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can deaf people become astronauts? why or why not? i am doing a research project.
please let me know
thank you

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are you hearing?

DeafCaroline

first tell us what are the requirements to be an astronaut, the job description then we'll or at least I will give an answer.

posts from hell

We have went over this... Funny thing all the information is actually clear on the NASA website.

DeafCaroline

I know, just making him do his homework. I am not going to do his research for him.

and by the way, I did look up requirements. visual acuity is required. education is required. even a specific height is required. nothing was said about hearing.

http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstud...uirements.html

Jiro

yes. I was a former astronaut. all it took was one psychedelic substance to make a trip.

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Reba

No deaf astronauts?

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PowerON

Yes, you can! Then we'll be able to make communicate easy in space without audio required.

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dereksbicycles

Are rockets turbocharged or are deaf people not allowed to turbocharge a rocket?

Reba

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Rockets use solid (gel) fuel or liquid fuel (main engines). They aren't turbocharged because there's no air in space.

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Cheetah

Shhhh... Maybe they are Deaf rockets and don't know this yet.

Seriously though, considering liguid rocket engines use liquid oxygen. I would say that is the same thing as turbocharged!

Doug5

no definitly not. The russians first sent dogs into space cuz of their superior hearing

helenkeller

No.

Lily7

I thought they weren't sending astronauts up into space anymore? Or is that just here in America?

Reba

America's space shuttle program has ended. There are still American astronauts but they have to hitch rides with other countries now. That is, they can ride the Russian spacecraft to the space station, for a fee.

cmdrwhitewolf

I have to say no. Because when I was a kid, I used to dream of being a astronaut. But when I told people that, they told me that was unrealistic, how I couldn't do it and all that. It was the first of many dreams (being in the air force, pilot, etc) crushed and career paths I was discouraged from all due to my being HOH.

Eventually I wound up working in a field that was waaaaayyyy down my list. Probably one of the reasons why I wound up living like Spock from Star Trek, actively suppressing emotions since my life kept being such a kick in the head from everyone else...

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DeafBadger

SpaceX is working with NASA to build a private rocket that will be cheaper to operate than the Shuttle. Virgin Galactic will also start flying the SpaceShip2, probably in 2012.

Private, commercial space is really starting to pick up. In another 10-15 years, there will be hundreds or thousands of private-sector astronauts.

And anyone will be able to buy a ticket for a ride and become an astronaut (defined has having traveled to a certain altitude or higher above the earth).

Being paid for "astronaut-ing" is a different category, of course.

SpaceX - Space Exploration Technologies Corp.

Welcome | Virgin Galactic

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Cheetah

Isn't a deaf astronaut actually an astrodeaf?

bazl0032

I work in Mission Control Houston and I can tell you that would be a no. I actually need a waiver in order to work there because I am profound on my right and mild on my left. Because I wear a hearing aid and can listen to the audio loops, I am still able to perform the job. If I was completely deaf, I would not be able to do it. It's not discrimination, just the nature of the job as you need to be able to hear and talk to people around the world (and with the crew in space).

rockin'robin

...and what's ur intake of "why not"?....just a "NO" doesn't cut it...explain how you know they can't.

bazl0032

Here's the Type II Physical Requirements (reference http://flightphysical.com/part67/Class2/67subc.htm):

(a) The person shall demonstrate acceptable hearing by at least one of the following tests:

(1) Demonstrate an ability to hear an average conversational voice in a quiet room, using both ears, at a distance of 6 feet from the examiner, with the back turned to the examiner.
(2) Demonstrate an acceptable understanding of speech as determined by audiometric speech discrimination testing to a score of at least 70 percent obtained in one ear or in a sound field environment.
(3) Provide acceptable results of pure tone audiometric testing of unaided hearing acuity according to the following table of worst acceptable thresholds, using the calibration standards of the American National Standards Institute, 1969:

Better Ear Worst Ear
This is the same as Type III (lower requirement) and I obtained a waiver since I can meet that requirement aided. If you can meet that requirement aided, it would come down to the Flight Surgeons to grant that waiver.

Cheetah

I might just have to marry the Flight Surgeon... Nothing wrong with hedging my bets!!!

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